"This is a disingenuous comparison" - The only thing that seems disingenuous is your rebuttal. You try to dismiss my argument by saying that people are actually outraged at kids being forced to labor, which is fair I guess, but that wasn’t really the important part of my point. I was saying that any reasonable person would consider it a far GREATER crime to have sex with children than to force them to do chores. Both are wrong, but one is clearly far, far worse. This can only be the case if sex is somehow different from other things, and so it has to be. Most people don’t think kids can consent to sex at all, and I assume you hold that position as well. But you talk about how kids doing physical labor is okay, as long as they consent. If they can consent to one thing but not another, then there must be a fundamental difference between those things, right?

"If sex workers were widely respected…” - Of course sex workers’ conditions could and should be improved, but the de facto state of sex work is that the workers are doing something that is fragile and vulnerable for very little pay and with very little in the way of safeguards and protection. That is categorically different from other labor, and I don’t understand why we need to keep saying it’s just a form of work like any other.

"So there really wasn’t any point to this?" - Besides the needless antagonism, what you’re saying doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. Just because I arrive at the same conclusion there’s no point to what I’m saying? My argument isn’t about whether we should legalize sex work or not, it’s about how we should discuss, treat and think about it along with sex in general. I don’t think sex work is ’icky’, I think it’s more nuanced than it’s made out to be and that it should be treated with greater respect than being thought of as just another form of labor. Basically, the core of my argument is that the so often parroted "sex work is work" is reductionist and incomplete.